The Wandering Minstrel

Rather than sending in 524 National Guard to the border, the Obamination will only engage the border with a photo op for Arizona Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Terry Goddard.

Despite having recently received a vote of no confidence by his workers, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton will be accompanying Goddard to the border.

This is just another sham. The DOJ, ICE and Homeland Security have all fallen on their asses under the Obamination. Instead of enforcing immigration laws to keep America safe, they are suing Arizona and two border county sheriffs.

From Border Sheriffs:

Dear friends,

I have some disturbing news to share with you.

You already know that the ACLU and the federal government are suing Arizona sheriffs Paul Babeu and Larry Dever to stop them from enforcing Arizona law 1070.

You already know that the federal government has gotten an injunction to stop the key parts of the law from taking effect. You should know that the sheriffs and our legal team are hard at work at overturning that court ruling and restoring the sheriffs ability to enforce the law.

What you may not know - and this is the disturbing part - is that rather than delivering the promised national guard troops to defend the border, instead the Obama administration is delivering a “photo-op.”

The Obama Administration yesterday announced that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton will be traveling to the Arizona border tomorrow, along with Democrat Gubernatorial hopeful and current Attorney General Terry Goddard.

“This latest political stunt by the Obama Administration to cover up its inaction in protecting our borders is pathetic,” said Sheriffs Babeu and Dever. “The Administration blew past their promised August 1st deadline to send 524 National Guard troops to Arizona, and now they are trying to appear concerned by sending the ICE director who recently received a vote of ‘no confidence’ by ICE’s union.

“Why doesn’t the President and Homeland Security Secretary and former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano visit the border themselves,” asked Sheriffs Babeu and Dever. “While he may be on vacation or fundraising, we in Cochise and Pinal Counties cannot take a vacation from the hundreds of thousands of illegals that continue to break our laws each day and threaten the safety and security of our residents.

“As hidden camera footage from the border has shown,” Sheriff Babeu continued, “illegal immigrants coming across the border are skirting our laws and placing our deputies in harms’ way. It seems as though the Administration’s standard procedure is to slap us with a lawsuit and delay help when we ask them to do their job.”

Hidden camera footage available at: http://cis.org/Videos/HiddenCameras2.

Friends, we need your help to restore the rule of law and security of our border. We need to give sheriffs like Larry Dever and Pul Babeu the support and tools they need to do their job. The first step in that process is to win their lawsuit. As much as it pains me to say it, we have to get the federal government and the ACLU out of their way.

There are three things you could do today to help us at the Legacy Foundation defend Sheriff Dever and Sheriff Babeu:

- First, please consider making a donation to their legal defense at http://www.bordersheriffs.com. We simply cannot mount the kind of legal defense they need against the federal government without your help.

- Second, please forward this email to other friends who share our belief in the rule of law, and concern for our nation’s security.

- Third, show your support for the Sheriffs by displaying this badge on your facebook page or website.

I use a Flash™ animation tool from time to time to produce some of the animated graphics used on this site. A couple of my countdown graphics have been about 30 days off since I put them up last December. The reason for this is due to a quirk in the scripting language for DATE objects. That is, the baseline for the MONTH descriptor is zero and not one, as I assumed incorrectly.

I fixed the scripts that appear in the sidebar under EXPIRATION and on the ABOUT page under TERMINUS OBAMINUM. The bad news is that it’s been wrong for seven months. The good news is that the fix took 31 days off of the Obamination’s time left.

THE OBAMINATION EXPIRES IN . . .

VOTE THE BUMS OUT IN NOVEMBER

Update: By the way, if you don’t enable JavaScript, the animations cannot be seen.

Kagan confirmed to SCOTUS by the US Senate

The most anti-military, anti-straight marriage, anti-firearms, pro-abortion and generally anti-constitution person to have been named and confirmed to the Supreme Court yet. To exacerbate the issue, she has zero judiciary experience.

She dodged her way through the Senate hearings and gave no reason why anyone should vote to confirm. But yet all Senate Democrats (except one) and five Republicans voted to confirm. Senator Ben Nelson (D - NE) voted no but had voted for cloture. A little game the Senator is playing to try and give the impression he was against her nomination - that won’t work, Benny, gun owners in Nebraska should see right through that little charade.

Senator Jeff Sessions (R - AL) made these remarks before the confirmation:

Either we embrace our constitutional heritage or we let it slip away. Either we move forward, more secure in our freedom, or we fall back to the old bankrupt idea of big government—an idea that has failed in every place and time it has been tried.

God help us if one of the conservative members of the Supreme Court has to be replaced by the Obamination.

A former colleague sent this in an email today:

Clickable image (to read the fine print).

“The Simple truth is that we’ve lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.” — Ronald Reagan

Stand with Arizona. Sign the petition at TOWNHALL.COM . . .

Arizona is fighting to defend its borders, protect its citizens, and preserve the rule of law.

The Obama administration, Mexico and liberal special interests with lawyers and protest groups are trying to destroy the Arizona economy through an irresponsible boycott.

Arizona is getting hit by boycotts from other states and cities but Arizona is staying strong - Arizona Strong.

Arizona’s governor is under tremendous pressure from every direction. Arizona faces a future full of lawsuits from advocates of open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens already in the U.S.

Join with us today and declare your solidarity with Arizona.

America should be teed off at this charlatan . . . and the vice-charlatan.

Regarding the BP Gulf oil spill: Placing blame where blame is due. Ramirez’ cartoon is spot on. Hat tip Scott on Powerline.

I haven’t been blogging about the gulf oil spill, but I wonder why the Obamination is able to visit the second largest gushing disaster (several times for photo ops) and not the greatest gushing disaster - you know, illegal aliens gushing into the U.S. at alarming rates. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer invited him to see for himself last week and he declined. The Governor now has a campaign in place to send the Obamination a “come visit Arizona” postcard.

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s meeting yesterday with the Obamination failed to get him to commit to anything. Brewer invited the President to “visit Arizona and see our open borders for yourself.” He declined. Brewer Asked him to increase the National Guard deployment to Arizona. He declined. She asked him for federal funds to offset the over 750 million dollars for incarceration expenses. He refused. She asked him to commit to build and extend the fence on the border. He made no such commitment.

The President refuses to enforce Federal Law. Shouldn’t that make him a lawbreaker for not living up to the oath of office he took?

Charles Krauthammer thinks so . . .

Excerpt from The Corner on Krauthammer’s Take:

On Arizona Governor Jan Brewer wanting first to secure the border and President Obama wanting first comprehensive immigration reform:

There is something very odd about this. The executive is required under the constitution to execute the laws. We have laws about immigration. The government, by its own acknowledgment, has failed 10 million times to enforce it. (Since there are that many illegals in the United States.)

And now it says: We’ll only enforce it if we get comprehensive reform, i.e., we are not going to enforce existing law until we get a change in the law or new law.

[But] you can’t hold an existing law hostage — [hold up] enforcement of it — to a legislative agenda you have. You have to enforce the law.

I do not understand how they can say this with a straight face in a constitutional democracy. You have to enforce the law.

The Obamination is clearly breaking the law by not enforcing it. I won’t hold my breath waiting to see any indictments, though.